I do think the challenge, in a way for me, is to write a narrative film and when you finish watching it… — Shane Black Copy Share Image
The only place where you can really surprise or shock the reader, or make someone laugh, is on the lower righthand corner… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I outline in some detail, but even after the outline is done I often get a new idea that is an improvement,… — Jeff Abbott Copy Share Image
It is one of our most exciting discoveries that local discovery leads to a complex of further discoveries. Corollary to this we… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
A thoughtful investment process contemplates both probability and payoffs and carefully considers where the consensus - as revealed by a price -… — Michael Mauboussin Copy Share Image
People aren't honest about the horrors of fame. The downsides are so overwhelming that, for me, there is no payoff. — Sia Furler Copy Share Image
Small kindnesses often, unintentionally, produce the biggest payoffs. — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
The results are the payoff. And all this sweating and hard work will be worth it. — Chalene Johnson Copy Share Image
If somebody else is making the rules for you, no matter how good the payoff is for you, you're being conned. — Jon Rappoport Copy Share Image
The real payoffs you never understand. You should just give good people money and tell them to do good things. — James Gosling Copy Share Image
It is the love that we give and the service we render that really is the great payoff. — David B. Haight Copy Share Image
People enter Web sites hoping to be led somewhere, hoping for a payoff. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
Take risks and you'll get the payoffs. Learn from your mistakes until you succeed. — Bobby Flay Copy Share Image
It's a wonderful opportunity to be part of a child's growing up, which is always an endless springtime. You see the blossoming… — Harrison Ford Copy Share Image
Is it harder having kids and working? It definitely is, but the payoff is you get to go home to your kids,… — Edie Falco Copy Share Image
here's a payoff for everyone. The reason we hang on to self-defeating behaviors is because it's easier not to take responsibility. — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
When I'm on tour, I'm in a new city every single night, and the energy and the crowds and the kids and… — Hilary Duff Copy Share Image
A lot of the jokes had some build-up to some nasty stuff. But most of it was all character situations leading to… — Shawn Wayans Copy Share Image
It's all a matter of paying attention, being awake in the present moment, and not expecting a huge payoff. The magic in… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
“Helping your customers all the way through to achieving results will have a big payoff for both yourself and them.” — Allan Dib Copy Share Image
When we can see an immediate payoff, we are more likely to change our behavior in the moment. This aligns our daily… — Tom Rath Copy Share Image
[C]ultivated risk-taking represents an 'experiment with trust' (in the sense of basic trust) which consequently has implications for an individual's self-identity. (...)… — Anthony Giddens Copy Share Image
If you sat with a pencil and jotted down all the decisions you've taken in the past week, or, if you could,… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Economic policies absorb almost the entire attention of government, and at the same time become ever more impotent. The simplest things, which… — E. F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
The only thing that makes me put down a book is if the characters are boring, or the situations aren't fraught with… — Michael Boatman Copy Share Image
I'm very motivated by the occasional creative payoff that comes when something goes really well, be it a song, a recording or… — Ian Anderson Copy Share Image
If I offered you a thousand dollars to take off your shoes, you'd very likely accept--and then I could triumphantly announce that… — Alfie Kohn Copy Share Image
The best pay off in the world is when someone comes up to you and says, 'your music has helped me with… — Hank Williams III Copy Share Image
Investors should remember that their scorecard is not computed using Olympic-diving methods: Degree-of-difficulty doesn't count. If you are right about a business… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
America's belated embrace of government health care is going to be far more expensive and disastrous than the Euro-Canadian models. Whatever one's… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
People don't walk around thinking of themselves as bad people. You're part of the environment that you grow up in, and there… — Jimmy Smits Copy Share Image
The cost of praising someone is nil - but every psychological study shows the payoff is huge. — Harvey Mackay Copy Share Image
The real payoff is the writing itself, that a day when you have gotten your work done is a good day, that… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
The best practical advice then is: try to maximize your expected payoff, which is the sum of all payoffs multiplied by probabilities. — Howard Raiffa Copy Share Image
An international race in the relevant technologies is getting under way at this point, not necessarily with an understanding of where that… — K. Eric Drexler Copy Share Image
“Leaving what feels secure behind and following the beckoning of our hearts doesn't always end as we expect or hope. We may… — Steve Goodier Copy Share Image
Democrat women lead the way in showing other women how to be stepped on and diminished by men. That's what they do,… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
The reward is every night. The 90 minutes is such a payoff for us every night; it makes it all worth it… — Gerry Beckley Copy Share Image
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